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Medicine
Colombia
2026

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Medicine

D-Index
95
Citations
64172
World Ranking
9844
National Ranking
3

Jose Posada-Villa publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jose Posada-Villa sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 174 publications — 1st percentile

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Jose Posada-Villa D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jose Posada-Villa sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 95 D-Index — 51st percentile

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Colombia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Colombia Leader Award

Overview

Jose Posada-Villa is affiliated with Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca in Colombia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with significant contributions to subfields such as Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to mental health, including:

  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Jose Posada-Villa has published extensively in several journals, often contributing to the following frequent publication venues:

  • Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • International Journal of Mental Health Systems
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • BMC Psychiatry

Recent notable publications include:

  • Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries (2023, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Toward measuring effective treatment coverage: critical bottlenecks in quality- and user-adjusted coverage for major depressive disorder (2020, Psychological Medicine)
  • Patterns of care and dropout rates from outpatient mental healthcare in low-, middle- and high-income countries from the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative (2020, Psychological Medicine)
  • Increased risks for mental disorders among LGB individuals: cross-national evidence from the World Mental Health Surveys (2022, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology)
  • Antidepressant use in low- middle- and high-income countries: a World Mental Health Surveys report (2021, Psychological Medicine)

Throughout their career, Jose Posada-Villa has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably:

  • Fernando Navarro-Mateu
  • Jordi Alonso
  • Oye Gureje
  • Viviane Kovess-Masféty
  • Ronald C. Kessler

Best Publications

  • Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    Demyttenaere K;Bruffaerts R;Posada-Villa J;Gasquet I

  • Cross-National Prevalence and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation, Plans, and Attempts

    Matthew K. Nock;Guilherme Borges;Evelyn J. Bromet;Jordi Alonso

  • Prevalence and correlates of bipolar spectrum disorder in the world mental health survey initiative.

    Kathleen R. Merikangas;Robert Jin;Jian-Ping He;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.

    Ronald C Kessler;Matthias Angermeyer;James C Anthony;Ron De Graaf

  • Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Katie A. McLaughlin;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J. Gruber

  • Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episode

    Evelyn Bromet;Laura Helena Andrade;Irving Hwang;Nancy A Sampson

  • Use of mental health services for anxiety, mood, and substance disorders in 17 countries in the WHO world mental health surveys

    Philip S Wang;Philip S Wang;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Matthias C Angermeyer

  • Cross-national prevalence and correlates of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

    J. Fayyad;R. De Graaf;R. Kessler;J. Alonso

  • Cross-National Associations Between Gender and Mental Disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    Soraya Seedat;Kate Margaret Scott;Matthias C. Angermeyer;Patricia Berglund

  • Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Corina Benjet

  • Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative

    Ronald C Kessler;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J Gruber;Nancy A. Sampson

  • The prevalence and correlates of binge eating disorder in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    Ronald C. Kessler;Patricia A. Berglund;Wai Tat Chiu;Anne C. Deitz

  • The epidemiology of traumatic event exposure worldwide: results from the World Mental Health Survey Consortium.

    C. Benjet;E. Bromet;E. G. Karam;R. C. Kessler

  • Common Chronic Pain Conditions in Developed and Developing Countries: Gender and Age Differences and Comorbidity With Depression-Anxiety Disorders

    Adley Tsang;Michael Von Korff;Sing Lee;Jordi Alonso

  • Barriers to mental health treatment: Results from the WHO World Mental Health surveys

    LH Andrade;J Alonso;Z Mneimneh;JE Wells

  • Toward a global view of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine use: Findings from the WHO world mental health surveys

    Louisa Degenhardt;Wai Tat Chiu;Nancy Sampson;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Undertreatment of people with major depressive disorder in 21 countries

    Graham Thornicroft;Somnath Chatterji;Sara Evans-Lacko;Michael Gruber

  • Cross-national analysis of the associations among mental disorders and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Matthew K. Nock;Irving Hwang;Nancy Sampson;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Twelve-Month Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    Guilherme Borges;Matthew K. Nock;Josep Maria Haro Abad;Irving Hwang

  • The descriptive epidemiology of DSM-IV Adult ADHD in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    John Fayyad;Nancy A Sampson;Irving Hwang;Tomasz Adamowski

  • Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative: Screening for Serious Mental Illness

    Ronald C. Kessler;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J. Gruber;Nancy A. Sampson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
Giovanni de Girolamo
Giovanni de Girolamo Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli
Jordi Alonso
Jordi Alonso Pompeu Fabra University
Oye Gureje
Oye Gureje University of Ibadan
Ronny Bruffaerts
Ronny Bruffaerts KU Leuven
Kate M. Scott
Kate M. Scott University of Otago
Sing Lee
Sing Lee Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chiyi Hu
Chiyi Hu University of California, Davis
Evelyn J. Bromet
Evelyn J. Bromet Stony Brook University
Dan J. Stein
Dan J. Stein University of Cape Town

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